Tierramerica - Ecobrief

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Movies for Environment Day

By IPS Correspondents and - -
More than 400 movies from 63 countries are participating in the fourth International Festival of Environmental Film and Video, taking place in the Brazilian city of Goiania Jun 5-9 as part of World Environment Day celebrations.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: University Manufactures Medicines

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The governmental National University of the Littoral, in the northwestern Argentine province of Santa Fe, has initiated production of medications for kidney problems and multiple sclerosis, which are sold within Argentina and exported to Brazil and Mexico by a private laboratory.

Ecobreves – PERU-BOLIVIA: Biodiversity Corridor

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The governments of Peru and Bolivia are promoting the creation of a corridor of land for conserving biological diversity, connecting eight protected areas in Peru and seven in Bolivia, and covering some 30 million hectares in the tropical Andean region.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: A Step Closer to the Stockholm Accord

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Mexican government will ratify the Stockholm Convention on controlling the persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: Danger for Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkey

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The zoo in the northern city of Barranquilla has launched a campaign to reverse the process of extinction of the tití monkey (Saguinus oedipus), or cotton-top tamarin, a species unique to the Colombian Caribbean region.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: No Nuclear Waste!

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- The governmental Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat of Argentina and the Federal Environment Council, made up of delegates from the provincial governments, are speaking out against congressional approval of an international contract that authorizes the import of nuclear waste.

Ecobreves – MEXICO:: Airport on Trial

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation is studying the denunciations against the construction of an international airport near the Mexican capital.

Ecobreves – PERU: TV-Monitored Waterworks

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Potable Water and Sewage Service of the Peruvian capital installed tiny video cameras inside the pipeline network to detect ruptures and leaks, which present a danger that became evident during the cholera epidemic that erupted here in the 1990s.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA:: Watching Hummingbirds Via Internet

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A special chamber set up by biologists in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle allows Internet explorers to study the life and habitat of hummingbirds up close.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Invading Frogs Discovered

By IPS Correspondents and - -
- Experts from the University of the Andes have detected the presence of the aggressive and exotic 'rana toro', or bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) in some aquatic ecosystems of the Venezuelan Andes, particularly in the natural and artificial lakes of the northwestern state of Mérida.

Ecobreves – CHILE: Protecting Indians' Access to Water

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Chilean government plans to set up a monitoring council to ensure that the Aymara indigenous communities living in the country's extreme north have access to the water of the Loa River.

Ecobreves – REGIONAL: Mountains in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The fragility of the mountainous systems of South America, Meso-America and the Caribbean in withstanding the onslaught of development will be the central them of the Regional Conference on Mountains, to take place in Cuba, May 29-31.

Ecobreves – PERU:: Campaigning for 35 New Protected Areas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The Biomar consortium, made up of 10 environmental organizations from Peru and abroad, is attempting to convince the Peruvian government to declare 25 islands and 10 areas of the country on the Pacific coast wildlife refuges.

Ecobreves – REGIONAL: Water for the Americas

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Experts, business leaders and environment ministers from throughout the Americas are to meet Oct 8-11 in Mexico to draw up and adopt strategies for distributing and conserving the region's freshwater supplies.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: High Plains in Danger

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The ecosystem of the Andean high plains is in danger because the poverty of its residents forces them to engage in unsustainable farming practices, warned experts at the World Plains Congress, held May 13-18 in the southwest Colombian city of Paipa.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Turtles Returned Home

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Biologists from Venezuela's Environment Ministry released 16,000 young Arrau turtles into the waters of the Orinoco River as part of a conservation program.

Ecobreves – CUBA: Plague Threatens Forests

By IPS Correspondents and - -
A plague of 'chinches harinosas' (mealybug, or Maconellicoccus hirsutus), encouraged by drought and warm temperatures, has endangered the fruit, ornamental and ligneous trees in the Cuban capital.

Ecobreves – COSTA RICA: A Ban on Open-Pit Mining

By IPS Correspondents and - -
The new government of Costa Rica will ban open-pit mining, announced the recently appointed Environment Minister, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez.

Ecobreves – PERU: Tourists Spoil Nature

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental activists and volunteers collected more than 17,000 plastic bottles left by tourists during the last Southern Hemisphere summer at Peru's Paracas Nature Reserve, a 335,000-hectare sanctuary on the Pacific coast.

Ecobreves – MÉXICO: Marine Vaquita Endangered

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Environmental organizations are working to prevent the extinction of the marine 'vaquita', a mammal similar to the dolphin and unique to Mexico. The population has dwindled to fewer than 600.

Ecobreves – COLOMBIA: In Search of Clean Energy

By IPS Correspondents and - -
Two Colombian companies have presented clean energy generating projects to the World Bank, which has invited companies from Japan and the Netherlands to finance clean development mechanisms in the countries of the developing South.
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